AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

eddyr · 6 May 2016 at 16:58

maonayze said:
I actually think that tomorrows 2am Event will be an announcement of product specs and launch dates for 1070/80 and the products will be available June/July.

Nothing more, nothing less.

See you all at 2am

Decided to sleep though it, and read up in the morning, I cant bring myself to sit through the hours of marketing and PR gloss that will preamble the few snippets of actual information. Sadly seems to be the norm now.

Seanspeed · 6 May 2016 at 18:17

Lord_ZED said:
JediFragger YE even if you got money cant buy VR helmet you are in queue still...

And DX12 ??? Well windows 10 is so far seen as **** UP and DX12 games are a joke they run or at same speed or WORSE than on dx11...

I cant see 2016 being a DX12/windows 10 year

Windows 10 is actually quite successful and mostly highly rated. Not sure what you're talking about.

DX12 is definitely not the saviour just yet, but we've also only really scratched the surface of what it is capable of. It'll be a while yet before we see any major advancements from it, though.

Diagro · 6 May 2016 at 18:18

Lord_ZED said:
JediFragger YE even if you got money cant buy VR helmet you are in queue still...

And DX12 ??? Well windows 10 is so far seen as **** UP and DX12 games are a joke they run or at same speed or WORSE than on dx11...

I cant see 2016 being a DX12/windows 10 year

No idea what your blabbing on about.

Windows 10 is very successful.

jubei · 6 May 2016 at 19:05

Lord_ZED said:
JediFragger YE even if you got money cant buy VR helmet you are in queue still...

And DX12 ??? Well windows 10 is so far seen as **** UP and DX12 games are a joke they run or at same speed or WORSE than on dx11...

I cant see 2016 being a DX12/windows 10 year

As above windows 10 is doing great, daft for anyone not to upgrade to it for free really.

muziqaz · 6 May 2016 at 19:13

I'm not a fan of MS update and security options towards Win 10, but once that is out of the way and disabled, I haven't had a single problem with this OS, and it was updated straight from Win 8.1 a year or so ago.
Now Windows Store, that is another matter

LoadsaMoney · 6 May 2016 at 20:01

Good god, we've got a couple of games that have had Dx12 patches added to them, which AMD do well in, and it signals the end of Nvidia, just bloody LOL.

queamin · 6 May 2016 at 20:11

LoadsaMoney said:
Good god, we've got a couple of games that have had Dx12 patches added to them, which AMD do well in, and it signals the end of Nvidia, just bloody LOL.

Not at all but dx12 is helping to get the most out of 390 and below where dx11 there were over heads and that is even changing as well, 390/x is almost the same compute as a 980ti now that don't mean it is as powerful but we are seeing more of the gpu being used under dx12.

LoadsaMoney · 6 May 2016 at 21:38

JediFragger said:
Very wise, the PC VR market is *massive*

/s

Yup, everyones got a headset, and have you seen the amount of games out, bloody millions of em!

queamin · 6 May 2016 at 21:41

LoadsaMoney said:
Yup, everyones got a headset, and have you seen the amount of games out, bloody millions of em!

Yeah seen them wearing them on the street oh no that was just their glasses

muziqaz · 6 May 2016 at 21:51

funny thing is, you all would be crying foul again if AMD did not go for VR market this early in the game if it became huge market.

queamin · 6 May 2016 at 22:00

Not really, when mainstream then yes and as far as I can see they are looking into VR and not just in gaming and as it is very early still.

The quote Loads did was because Jedi said it was massive which it isn't at moment and my reply was tough in cheek anyway as was his.

muziqaz · 6 May 2016 at 22:09

queamin said:
Not really, when mainstream then yes and as far as I can see they are looking into VR and not just in gaming and as it is very early still.

The quote Loads did was because Jedi said it was massive which it isn't at moment and my reply was tough in cheek anyway as was his.

if you want company to be successful in certain new market it needs to have foundation done. That's what AMD is doing with VR. By the attention VR is getting it seems its gonna be huge. Let's face it everyone would love to have VR set up, but most of us don't want or can't spend so much for new tech.
Everyone would be on AMDs back if AMD would get in into VR market when it is already established. Everyone would say oh, AMD is in 'me too' mode again.

queamin · 6 May 2016 at 22:30

They need zen to sell more than anything, I don't mind how many market's they in as long as they get zen right.

LoadsaMoney · 7 May 2016 at 01:37

queamin said:
Yeah seen them wearing them on the street oh no that was just their glasses

Bazzards · 7 May 2016 at 04:22

At the price that VR will be launching, I still see it as being pretty niche regardless of the push by Sony.

The cost for entry is still quite high. I must admit I am only slightly curios at the moment because i'm not convinced that it would work for me. So would need to test a £500-£600 headset before committing, this is a huge amount of money for anyone other than an enthusiast. I need to try it really.

Tute · 7 May 2016 at 04:23

If you're anywhere near Overclockers I believe they have a VR room where you can try out some headsets.

Bazzards · 7 May 2016 at 04:30

Unfortunately not. I don't generally suffer from motion sickness so that isnt really the main concern, its how immersed I would be. I'm probably not the right person for it, given that I don't play driving or space sims.

Edit: I do wish AMD had released some information to take a bit of wind out of Nvidias sails.

jupiter_man · 7 May 2016 at 08:49

Nvidia has released 1080 and it seems to be much faster and cheaper than 980Ti, can AMD match this? They were talking about the new card is matching Fury performance? if thats true then it will be a disaster for AMD...

FoxEye · 7 May 2016 at 08:56

OK, where the heck is AMD's launch event?

If they don't manage to get cards out till September, and nV genuinely launch in quantity late May, then AMD has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, yet again.

And whilst I planned on getting a Polaris, if the GTX1070 is available months before the AMD equivalent, then I'm sorry AMD, you lose.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 7 May 2016 at 09:03

FoxEye said:
OK, where the heck is AMD's launch event?

If they don't manage to get cards out till September, and nV genuinely launch in quantity late May, then AMD has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, yet again.

And whilst I planned on getting a Polaris, if the GTX1070 is available months before the AMD equivalent, then I'm sorry AMD, you lose.

Maybe because you need to look at the launch again.

The two cards being launched on May 27th and June 10th are the GTX1080 Founders Editon for $699(£580 including VAT) and the GTX1070 Founders Edition for $449(£375 including VAT):

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-quantum-leap-in-gaming:-nvidia-introduces-geforce-gtx-1080

There is no ETA on the cheaper non-reference cards yet.

The GTX1080 is meant to be 25% faster than a GTX980TI according to AT,ie,around GTX980TI Matrix level,and has 40% more TFLOPS than the GTX1070 and GDDR5. The GTX980 had only 20% more TFLOPs than the GTX970,so it looks like the GTX1070 cannot touch the GTX1080.

So at this point,the whole sub £375 market is clear now.

This is probably why AMD is taking their time now - they realised the area they wan't to launch cards in is not being contested by Nvidia. The latest leaks say Q3 for the rest of the lineup for Nvidia.

Its almost like they are avoiding each other for now!!